Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-26

be to God that Jesus came from thron,
to manager that we might rise from
manger to throne, and that all tn,
gates are open, and that the door o
heaven that once swung this way t.
let Jesus out. now swings the Other
way TO let us in. Let all the bellmer
of heaven lay hold the rope. and ring
out the rows behold, | bring yol
glad tidings of great joy, which shall
be to all people, for to day is born il
the city of David. a Saviour. which i.
Christ. the Lord !"
The second installment paid for oui
souls clearance was the scene in Quar-
an'ania. IA mountainous region full 81
caverns. where there are TO this DAY
panthers and wild beasts of all sorts
so that you must now. the tra,rti,i
says, 90 there armed with hnlic ol
gun or pistol. 1t was there that Jesus
went to think and pray. and 1t was
there that this monster of hell, more
sly, more terrific than anything that
prowled in that country-Satan him
self, met Christ. The rose in the cheek
of Christ-that Pubiius Lentulus, in
his letter to the Roman Senate, ascribed
to Jesus-that rose had scattered its
petals. Abstinence from food had
thrown MIN into cmaciation. The
longest abstinence from food recorded
in prOfano history is that of the crew
of the ship Juno; for twenty-three days
they had nothing to eat. But this suf-
ferer had tasted a month and ten days
before he broke fast.
Hunger must have agonized every
fibre of the body and gnawcd on the
stomach with teeth of death. The
thought of a morsel of bread or meat
must have thrilled the body with some
thing like ferocity. Turn OUT patch OF
MEN HUNGRY
as Christ was an hungered, and if they
had strength, with one yell they would
have devoured you As a lion IA kid. II
was in that pang of hunger that Jesus
was accosted. and Satan said: ..Now
change these stones, which look like
bread. into an actual supply of bread
Had the temptation come to you or
me under those circumstances, we
would have cried: ..Bread it shall
be-" and been almost impatient at the
time taken for mastication; but Christ
with one hand beat back the hunger,
and with the other hand beat back the
monarch of darkness. O. We tempted
ones! Christ was tempted. We are
told that Napoleon ordered n coat OF
mail made; but he vas not quite GER
tain that it was impenetrable. SO he
said TO the manufacturer Of that coat of
mail, 'Put it on yourself and
let us try it, and with shot
after shot from his own pistol the EN-
peror found out that it was just what
it pretended to be-a good coat of
mail. Then the man received a large
reward. / bless God that the same
coat of mail that struck back the
weapons of temptation from the heart
of Christ we may now all wear: for
Jesus comes and says: Il have been
tempted, and | know what it is to be
tempted. Take this robe that de-
Tended Me and wear it for yourselves.
! will see you through all trials. and |
will see you through all temptation
But" says Satan still further to
Jesus, .'come and | will show you
something worth looking at" and after
a half days journey they came to
Jerusalem and to the top of the temple.
Just as one might 60 up in the tower
of Antwerp and look of upon Belgium,
so
SATAN BROUGHT CHRIST
to the top of the temple. Some peo-
pie at a great height feel dizzy. and
have a strange disposition to jump so
Satan comes to Christ with a powerful
temptation in that very crisis. Stand
ing there at the top of the temple they
looked off. A magnificent reach OF
country. Grain fields, vineyards,
olive groves, forests and streams, cat
tie in the valley, fiocks on the hills, and
villages, and cities and realms.
Now" says Satan, IN make a bar.
gain. just Jump off. | know it is a
great way from the top of the temple
to the valley, but if you are divine you
can fly. Jump of. 1t won't hurt you.
Angels will catch you. Your father
will hold you. Besides III make you 9
large present, if you will. III give
you Asia Minor, I'll give you india,
I'll give You China, III give you
Ethiopia, I'll give you Italy, I'll give
you Spain, III give you Germany. I'll
give you Britain, I'll give you all the
world" What a humiliation it mus'
have been.
Go tomorrow morning and get in an
alteration with some wretch crawling
up from a gin cellar in the Fourth ward,
New York. .No,' you say, 81 would
not be mean myself by getting in such
a contest" Then think Of what the
King Of heaven and earth endured
when He came down and fought that
great wretch of hell, and fought him in
the wilderness and on the top Of the
temple. But bless God that in that
triumph over temptation Christ gives
us the assurance that we also shall,
triumph. Having Himself been tempt.
ed, He Is able to succor all those who
are temp It'd.
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